stranded on a cruise ship off the australian coast after a potentially harmful case of bio foul . we speak to one of those onboard. we start with some breaking news from perth, in scotland. three people have died after a fire broke out at a hotel there. emergency services, including 21 ambulance crews and nine fire trucks, were called to the new county hotel on county place at about five am local time. let s get more on this with our correspondent, gareth barlow. a developing situation. we know three people have died. several emergency service vehicles remain on scene as well. there is a police cordon and the rest of the guests have been evacuated. the hotel is a 28 room and suite hotel, close to the railway station in the centre of perth, and at 5:10am this morning, the ambulance service of scotland and the fire service ending 21 ambulance vehicles and nine fire appliances to that incident. we have heard from the deputy first minister, john swinney, a local msp, on twitter,
yet because we still have a lot of leftover tropical moisture that is streaming through the area. i think today is going to feel be a lot like it was yesterday afternoon where you just had a lot of cloud cover, occasional showers running through the area. this morning we had a little bit of rain in the citrus county area up to leve. not a big deal. we are not going to put too much more in the bucket. we can t have more rain, there is nowhere to it go. the rain %. south-out east winds at 3 miles per hour. a lot of cloud cover. a few showers mixed in. it is not going to ruin your day and not going to rain every minute of the day but keep checking the sky tower radar for chance of showers. tropical storm hermine causing problems for the part of the country. i will talk about that in a minute. investigating a house fire in port richey. it broke out before 4:00 on westport drive in port richey. bring you an update as soon as we get more information. also new this morning, sa
we both we can see it in here. we got a camera and with you . there we go, it made me want sudden. like, so dark! yeah, we both were like good morning, we re glad you re with us, saturday december 26, i m carrie connelly along with dave epstein, i had a great christmas, my living room is a disaster. that s christmas, right? that s okay, it s fun. but the weather though, boy yeah, it was amazing. warmer than on easter morning, people were saying like easter, i did not even think like easter, warmer. like memorial day. i go to my friend s house, been doing this for years, they have me over for christmas dinner, we sat outside on the deck and had hors d oeuvres and it was just that was fabulous, you probably will not forget christmas 2015 s weather for quite awhile. now, this morning, it s colder but boy, we re still above where we should be had time of year for the highs! remember, average high temperatures are in the upper 30s in boston, mid 30s back t
present doesn t come, dave said you tell everybody it s coming. if it s that one present for somebody and you have to go to a party and you don t have it, that s awkward. it,but there s also, like, life it is, but you know there s also, like, life stuff. it is a good lesson in patience and waiting. it s not what you choose. get over the embarrassment. right. thank you for your words of wisdom. that s where your present is. i was wondering where it was actually. [ laughter ] let s take a look. 45 degrees out here. even i ve lost perspective. it s like, where should we be? i step outside and it s chilly. it s not, it s way above where they should be for highs this time of year. we ll have to get back to reality in the next ten days. we ll just keep trending a little bit cowler so finally once we get especially into that second week of january, i think it will really start to feel chilly and we ll have temperatures back in the single digits, teens, and stuff like
and i would suggest that a year from now, the notion that we would reverse this policy that is allowed more americans to travel to cuba and to help cuban people have access to more technology more capital more values and more contact with americans will seem as absurd as reversing the changes that were made with cuban american travel a couple of years ago. so again, i applaud you for what you re doing and look forward to working with the administration as this policy unfolds. thank you, senator menendez. thank you, mr. chairman. let me ask you when a cuban-american sends or visits their relatives in cuba and give them a lit money, the only place really to buy something is the dollar store isn t is that true? if you want to get something? i believe certainly there s there s more in those stores to buy. by the way, who owns the dollar stores? they are state run. okay. the government. and so if i want to send a remittance to my relative in cuba, the cuban governm